Conventional wisdom can be right, but more often than not it is wrong. Worryingly, two highly conventional economic assumptions lie at the heart of the Queen's speech . The first is that there is no more important challenge facing the country than ...

HSBC chairman Stephen Green said: 'There is once again a real danger that the cumulative impact of doctrinaire policy could have some perverse and unintended effects on the economy and for wider society.' If banks are forced to raise their capital ...